For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

Every greed is the root of un-gratefulness.

It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

Autumn is my favorite season.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.